Lena Dunham urges Hollywood studios to diversify... four years after facing criticism for her white-dominated HBO series

Lena Dunham joined the #OscarsSoWhite debate and urged Hollywood studios to diversify like the films she's seen as juror at the Sundance Film Festival.

'The idea that there aren't enough diverse filmmakers or there aren't enough woman filmmakers to give jobs to, it's simply a fallacy and I know that because I'm here [in Utah] and I'm seeing the movies,' the 29-year-old Golden Globe winner told E! Online on Monday.

'If the studio system is ignoring these voices then we have a very serious problem and they are and the fact is this dialogue and the promises that the Academy has made is the beginning of shifting that, but what really needs to happens is that people need to take notice and give resources to these voices.'

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'I'm here and I'm seeing the movies': Lena Dunham joined the #OscarsSoWhite debate and urged Hollywood studios to diversify like the films she's seen as juror at the Sundance Film Festival (pictured Monday)

The 29-year-old Golden Globe winner told E! Online on Monday: 'If the studio system is ignoring these voices then we have a very serious problem...what really needs to happens is that people need to take notice and give resources to these voices'

On Friday, the Suited producer admitted on Instagram that she should know, having 'been on the receiving end of criticism about diversity.'

When Lena's HBO series Girls premiered in 2012, the self-described 'half-Jew, half-WASP' was criticised for her cast dominated by white privileged millennials.

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'It was an educational, painful process for me,' Dunham lamented to the Hollywood Reporter in May.

'The only thing I know for sure is that our job is to listen': On Friday, the Suited producer admitted on Instagram that she should know, having 'been on the receiving end of criticism about diversity'

'It was an educational, painful process for me': When Lena's HBO series Girls premiered in 2012, the self-described 'half-Jew, half-WASP' was criticised for her cast dominated by white privileged millennials

Dunham lamented to the Hollywood Reporter in May: 'I had forgotten that there was an entire world of women being under-served' (pictured Sunday)

'I'd been thinking so much about representing weirdo, chubby girls and strange half-Jews that I had forgotten that there was an entire world of women being under-served.

'I think that was a very intense, complex, and ultimately super-important experience for me to witness and then become a part of that conversation, about race on television.'

The Hillary Clinton supporter remained hopeful following Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs' approved plan Thursday to double the number of women and diverse members by 2020.

Honorary Oscar winner Spike Lee and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have announced their plans to boycott the awards show, which airs on ABC on February 28.

Silver lining: Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs' approved plan Thursday aims to double the number of women and diverse members by 2020 (pictured Saturday)

Outraged: Honorary Oscar winner Spike Lee (pictured November 15) and Will & Jada Pinkett Smith have announced their plans to boycott the ABC awards show, which airs February 28

However Whoopi Goldberg, who won an Oscar for her turn in 1990's Ghost, rallied to defend the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the body behind the event on The View on Monday.

The show's host said: 'The issue is not the Academy…Even if you fill the Academy with black and Latino and Asian members, if there’s no one on the screen to vote for, you’re not going to get the outcome that you want.

'I won once, so it can’t be that racist. I’ve been black the whole time.'

Fans can expect more romance between Lena's substitute teacher character Hannah Horvath and teacher Fran Parker (Jake Lacy) in the fifth season - premiering February 21 on HBO.

Premiering February 21 on HBO! In the meantime, fans can expect more romance between Lena's substitute teacher character Hannah Horvath and teacher Fran Parker (Jake Lacy) in the fifth season (pictured June 11)